LOS ANGELES ( MainStreet ) -- Downtown Los Angeles peaked as a commerce center in the 1920s with banking and business headquarters stretching across the skyline, grand hotels such as the Biltmore and Alexandria and nascent luxury brands such as Harry Winston. Much of the city's influence and focus moved west down Wilshire Boulevard over the decades, though, leaving the city's inner core to languish in a mostly 9-to-5 world of white-collar workers, infamous Skid Row and an infrastructure of decaying landmarks that, despite a skyscraper skyline and gilded landmarks, became a virtual no-man's-land after dark.
But a reinvention of downtown Los Angeles began with the arrival of the city's Staples Center in 1999, owned in part and operated by the Anschutz Entertainment Group, and developments
The pair shared the £4800-a-night penthouse suite at the decadent five-star Hotel Principe di Savoia, where Beckham was staying in Milan. 
Left - David Beckham leaves the Principe di Savoia hotel in downtown Milan, Italy, Monday, March 15, 2010. Beckham left the hotel on crutches and headed to 
by AP Enlarge AP David Beckham leaves the Principe di Savoia hotel in downtown Milan, Italy, Monday, March 15, 2010. Beckham left the hotel on crutches and 
And who wouldn't, when your temporary residence is a £4800-a-night penthouse suite at the decadent five-star Hotel Principe di Savoia? 
Meurice and Hotel Plaza Athenee in Paris, the Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan, The New York Palace in New York and the Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles. 
Il salotto dello splendido hotel Principe di Savoia ospita infatti il famoso Afternoon Tea del prestigioso hotel The Dorchester di Londra, evento premiato 
È consigliata la prenotazione allo 02 6230 2081 o all'indirizzo ilsalotto@hotelprincipedisavoia.com Il Salotto, la nuova lobby dell'Hotel Principe di Savoia
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